Excerpts: Letters to Justin

Letters to Justin

Dear Justin,

I think of you often as I practice or teach and feel a surge of truth rising in me, slowly but surely.

T’ai Chi Chih has changed my life for the better. My body (is) healing (from) an auto injury to my neck/back and T’ai Chi Chih has started me on a path of interior healing that is both joyful and mysterious.

The inward journey scares me sometimes since I have invested so much habit energy to looking outside of myself for the answers. T’ai Chi Chih has opened the door for me to see for myself-my true nature, in a gentle and supportive manner.

Each session of T’ai Chi Chih encourages a new step ahead on a clearly lit pathway. (It allows me to) sense my off balance points and become soft and continuous. In other words, find another way to think/feel/act that is more (T’ai Chi Chih) loving. I’m finding it easier to be able to dip into the bubbling spring of calm and fill my tank full of peace.

Thank you for sharing this gift of T’ai Chi Chih practice and principles. My students are having wonderful results also. Love and Thanksgiving,

– Fran Dukehart
San Luis Obispo, CA

Dear Justin:

I don’t think I ever recognized at the time of the training what a profound transformation I was experiencing. I only began to feel and really see the joy, to sense the vastness, the power and the wholeness of T’ai Chi Chih. Difficult to explain when words seem so small.

I feel like an infant in all this, realizing I intimated another level of existence beyond the one my life has been about until now. No more pockets of disbelief are inside me…without wanting or trying, I simply feel and believe in the Chi in T’ai Chi Chih. My respect and gratitude for you and all the teachers at the training is increased. Thank you. Joy to you,

– Amy Hackenberg
Los Angeles, CA

More Excerpts from Letters to Justin

Dear Justin,

The more I practice, the more I’m convinced that doing T’ai Chi Chih on a regular basis prepares us for and helps us cope with unexpected, unavoidable, difficult times. Here are a few more T’ai Chi Chih situations I’d like to share with you and others.

While waiting two and a half hours for my car to be towed, a lot of Bass Drum helped me keep my cool.

While waiting during routine medical appointments, I usually do T’ai Chi Chih. If I finish all the movement, I’m in much better shape to face the traffic going home.

On a very warm day, I started to feel lightheaded. I went outside, sat down, then doing T’ai Chi Chih movements in my head, I began to feel better.

When I had oral surgery I was told to take it easy for several days and not do anything strenuous. I practiced T’ai Chi Chih twice a day and felt well enough to go to a potluck garden party three days later.

Providing board and care for a chronically mentally ill person often presents difficult challenges. One is getting the person out of bed each day. Doing T’ai Chi Chih and Toning With Movement instead of physically pulling her out of bed is so much more pleasant for both of us. It brings down my frustration level and gets her going on a more positive note. We both win!

Have you ever felt like doing T’ai Chi Chih in a park at night under a starlit summer sky? One evening when I did, there were some very obnoxious youngsters in the shadows. I ignored them and just kept moving while my daughter stood nearby looking at the stars. The noisy ones had left the park by the time I got to “Push Pull”, so I just continued to enjoy the quiet beauty of a summer night while doing T’ai Chi Chih under the stars.

Thanks again for T’ai Chi Chih and sharing your wisdom with all of us.

– Vicki Michele Brodie
Burlingame, CA